January 21, 2008

Pissed-off black woman: "Duh, I'm a black woman and here I am at the voting booth. Duh, since I'm illiterate I'll pull down the lever for someone. Hm... Well, he black so I may vote for him... oh wait she a woman I may vote for her... What Ise gon' do? Oh lordy!"

ADDED: Based on the first 2 comments, I see I need to use my sledgehammer. 1. Read the linked article. 2. The quote is from one of many women who were annoyed by CNN. 3. It's sarcasm.

28 comments:

Wow, no stereotype there - pissed off black women. The complainers pretend it's not an issue and in a way they are right. For black women the choice will be a black male over a white women 99% of the time.

Did anyone ask New Hampshire women if they were planning to vote their race? Why not? I realize that the question was bandied about afterwards, what with all the discussion of the Bradley effect, but it wasn't broached before the election. At least not as was done in the CNN story.

Unless an editor can imagine asking white men in South Carolina a similar question, he or she ought to realize that this story starts from a series of biased assumptions.

"Since Edwards no longer officially exists, as a white male I face the same choice - either I vote my race (Clinton) or my gender (Obama). Or I could just pick the candidate based on who I think would be best," wrote Michael.

My guess is that most African-American women who vote based on one of these factors will vote based on Race, and not Gender. Why? Neither candidate really relates that well to their life's experiences. Obama wasn't really raised "Black", but Hillary's life has been even more different from theirs.

Indeed, you could ask what Hillary has in common with the average Black woman, besides two X chromosomes. She grew up White, attended the best colleges, was a high powered lawyer, had "Help" (much of it Black) from the time that her husband went into the governor's mansion, etc.

Here's one woman unlikely to vote the way percentages insist she must, but that won't stop percentages being quoted. What was it way up there↑?, 99% of the time?, from whose bum was that figure yanked? And that's not funny.